Nittaya Tongrong. Children under-five mortality in Thailand from 2000 to 2009. ปริญญาโท(Research Methodology). มหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์ วิทยาเขตปัตตานี. : , 2014.
Children under-five mortality in Thailand from 2000 to 2009
Abstract:
Children under-five mortality is an important measure of health and development. This
study aims to describe the pattern of all-causes death rates and perinatal originating
conditions for children under-five years by gender and Public Health Area (PHA) in
Thailand from 2000 to 2009. Death registration (DR) and the 2005 Verbal Autopsy
(VA) data were obtained from the Bureau of Health Policy and Strategy, Ministry of
Public Health. The data were recorded by provinces, gender, age-group and DR
cause-location group. The DR reported causes of deaths were misclassification.
Logistic regression model was used to estimate number of deaths by cause based on
the VA data. Multiple linear regression was used describe patterns of death rates.
There were 84,227 deaths reported from 2000-2009. The average death rate was 177.9
per 100,000 population.
The all-cause death rates in boys were higher than girls. The all-cause death rates had
a decreasing trend with the peak in 2001. The death rates in the Central region
(PHA2, PHA3 and PHA4) and the lower South (PHA12) were higher than the average
whereas the death rates in the Northeast (PHA5, PHA6 and PHA7, the upper South
(PHA11), and Bangkok (PHA13) were lower than the average.
The perinatal originating conditions were of 27,621 deaths and the average death rate
was 58.4 per 100,000 population. The death rates for boys were higher than those for
girls. The highest death rate was found in 2005, while the death rates in 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, and 2009 were all higher than the average. The death rates in the Central
region (PHA2, PHA3 and PHA4) and the lower South (PHA12) were higher than the
average, whereas the death rates in the Northeast (PHA5), the North (PHA10), and the
upper South (PHA11) were lower than the average.